Israel’s defense minister says that if the shaky ceasefire with Hezbollah collapses, Israel will widen its strikes and target ...

An array of domestic and foreign powers are vying for influence in Lebanon, including the Lebanese Armed Forces, Hezbollah, ...

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The shock capture of Aleppo by Syrian forces opposed to Bashar al-Assad in recent days has dealt a humiliating blow to the ...

A historian explains why U.S. sanctions and Iran and Russia’s entanglements in other wars helped create an opening for rebel ...

Islamist-led rebels are pressing a major offensive in northern Syria in which they seized the second city Aleppo from the government for the first time since civil war erupted in 2011.

Fighters from a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led coalition battled Syrian government forces in northeast Syria early on Tuesday, both ...

The U.S. military carried out a strike in self defense against weapon systems in eastern Syria, the Pentagon said on Tuesday, adding it was unrelated to the ongoing rebel advances in the country.

The US and NATO-backed war for regime change in Syria, launched in 2011, has been revived. Turkey, Syria’s northern neighbour ...

Assad’s regime fall in Syria could be a painful blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In particular, he will lose the ...

Although the Pentagon has denied taking any part in the rebel offensive against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, the USA does ...